Honorary awards included the Dan Parson Memorial Awards given to Pat Bellamy-West, the George Gerlach Award given to the Modrall family, the Business Support for the Arts Award given to Linda Whitney and the Brad Behan Memorial Award won by to Rafaela Ellis.

In the acting category, Dominic Defoe won Outstanding Performance by a Young Person for his role in Over the Tavern, and Mary Squires won Best Featured Actress for her role as the maid in Out of Order. Nick Judy received the Best Featured Actor Award for his role as the body in Out of Order and Best Supporting Actor for Over the Tavern. Best Supporting Actress was Katie McPhail in Over the Tavern, and Best Actor went to Doug Neville in Out of Order. The Best Actress Award was won by Brenda Gibbs for Over the Tavern, and the Best Two Performances by a Female in a Musical went to Maria Adessa in NunCrackers and Shelly Fountain in Always Patsy Cline. Best Two Performances by a Male in a Musical went to Larry Helms in Nuncrackers and Alan Reynolds in Peter Pan. Reynolds also received the award for Best Set Design for Peter Pan and John Foland received the award as the director of the Best Play of the Year, Out of Order. Norman Small accepted the award as director of the Best Musical, Always Patsy Cline.

AUDITIONS

`FLORIDA IDOL'

The "Florida Idol" search will have auditions in Haines City on Oct. 2 at the Clay Cut Centre, 801 Ledwith Ave. Participants will compete Oct. 9, 16 and 23, and the finals will be Oct. 30. The competition is open to Florida vocalists 18 or older. Registration: 863-421-3773.

The teen class performs at 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month. The adult class performs at 7:30 p.m. every fifth week. Cost: $1.

Acting/improv classes for children ages 8 to 12 are from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday. Classes run six weeks with a performance the final week.

Details: 863-299-5698.

DRAMA CAMPS

Moonlight Players Theatre in Clermont will have summer drama camps through July 9 for ages 6 to 14. Themes are "Twisted Fairytales" from Monday to July 2 and "Broadway Dance" from July 5 to 9. Cost: $85 per week. Details: Alisha Allen, 407-469-8863.

SHOWS AND EXHIBITS

PHOTO CONTEST

The Polk County Environmental Lands Program is sponsoring a photo contest open to Polk residents. The categories are water, native wildlife, wilderness landscapes, native plants and flowers and nature-based recreation.

Images must be taken on Polk County environmental lands. Entries are limited to three per subject. Ten winners will have their photographs included in a calendar. Entries must be postmarked by Sept. 10.

Rules are available at polkcounty.net under "How can we help you?" and click on environmental lands, or by calling 863-534-7377, Ext. 211.

BOOTH SPACE

MARKET AND PEDDLER'S FAIRE

Montrose Market and Peddler's Faire is the second Saturday of the month in downtown Clermont.